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Antonella Ortelli & Irene Quartana

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Subtext

IRENE:

It’s all past
I start from here
A door opens
And the door is open
The trim blow up
and I jump in the air with it
Cu-Cu is there anyone up there?

ANTONELLA:

one someone each
each of us laughs at the moon
bright white undertones
we look at the flowing stars in the day
here now
jets of silver ether
at every new connection
… zoom… zoom… zamm

From Antonella Ortelli & Luca Quartana’s
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Part of Galleria Milano’s proeject, autoprogettazione [self-design].
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Antonella Ortelli lives and works in Milan. Since the late 1980s, she’s been  developing a particular direction in researching the transformation of the sign into a drawing placed in space and reinterpreted through the centrality of the relationship. Her work has been exhibited in numerous collective and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 1991, she conceived and founded the Progetto Casina with Carla Vendrami (1962-2009), Silvia Truppi (1950-2001), and with the collaboration of Aldo Rocco, Luca Quartana and Giorgio Zanchetti at the Women’s Section of the San Vittore prison in Milan. The project is still active, you can follow it on facebook.
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After attending Quelli di Grock and Centro Teatro Attivo in Milan in 2006, Irene Quartana participated in the International Workshop which was conducted by the Russian director and pedagogue Jurij Alschitz in Cyprus.  Her work was shown in F. Dostoevskij’s “The White Nights”, an EATC project directed by Alschitz himself. In July 2009, she graduated from the School after Theater, an international three-year program for professional directors, actors and teachers directed by Jurij Alschitz in collaboration with Desmi Centre Athens, Akt Zent Berlin and Gitis Moscow. Quartana also began a collaboration with the Teatro Officina in Milan, where she was involved in various important productions. Since 2010, she has been collaborating with the Harbaje cultural association which focuses on both prose and children’s theater.